Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Q: What two world capitals can be found by rearranging the letters in the phrase 'serial number.'

Since the NPR puzzle is rather easy, here's related puzzle for you. Take the oxymoronic phrase "A kinetic zen". Rearrange the letters to form the title of a well-known movie. Now figure out how it is related to this week's puzzle.

Edit: The answer to my puzzle was the movie "Citizen Kane" where it is revealed that "Rosebud" was the name of a sled. Sled written backwards is DELS which contains the Internet country codes for Germany(DE) and Lesotho(LS) respectively.

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Here's my standard reminder... don't post the answer or any outright spoilers before the deadline of Thursday at 3pm ET. If you know the answer, click the link and submit it to NPR, but don't give it away here. Thank you.

P.S. There's a possibility the puzzle deadline is not Thursday at 3pm ET given the Thanksgiving holiday. I'll post the updated deadline if it changes.

The answer to my puzzle was the movie "Citizen Kane" where it is revealed that "Rosebud" was the name of a sled. Sled written backwards is DELS which contains the Internet country codes for Germany(DE) and Lesotho(LS) respectively.

RKO281 was a TV-movie dealing with the filming of Citizen Kane - the title was the SERIAL NUMBER of the RKO film. All three of these films are of a very high standard.

and from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RKO_281

RKO 281 is a 1999 dramatic film directed by B(ENJAMIN) ROSS and starring Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, and Roy Scheider. It depicts the making of Citizen Kane; its title is the original production number of Kane.